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Dice and Gods on the Silk Road: Chinese Buddhist Dice Divination in Transcultural Context: Prognostication in History, cartea 7

Autor Brandon Dotson, Constance A. Cook, Zhao Lu
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 iun 2021
What do dice and gods have in common? What is the relationship between dice divination and dice gambling? This interdisciplinary collaboration situates the tenth-century Chinese Buddhist “Divination of Maheśvara” within a deep Chinese backstory of divination with dice and numbers going back to at least the 4th century BCE. Simultaneously, the authors track this specific method of dice divination across the Silk Road and into ancient India through a detailed study of the material culture, poetics, and ritual processes of dice divination in Chinese, Tibetan, and Indian contexts. The result is an extended meditation on the unpredictable movements of gods, dice, divination books, and divination users across the various languages, cultures, and religions of the Silk Road.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004461208
ISBN-10: 9004461205
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Prognostication in History


Notă biografică

Brandon Dotson, D.Phil. (2007), University of Oxford, is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University. He has published various books and articles on early Tibet and on Dunhuang manuscripts, including The Old Tibetan Annals (VÖAW, 2009).
Constance A. Cook, Ph.D. (1990), University of California, Berkeley, is NIH Distinguished Professor at Lehigh University. She has published a number of books and articles on ancient China, including Ancestors, Kings, and the Dao (Harvard, 2017).
Zhao Lu, Ph.D. (2013), University of Pennsylvania, is Assistant Professor of Global China Studies at New York University Shanghai and Global Network Assistant Professor at New York University. He is the author of In Pursuit of the Great Peace (SUNY, 2019).

Cuprins

Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations

Introduction: Playing Dice with the Gods
1Meta-Divination
2Gambling with the Gods
3Dice Gaming and Dice Divination
4A Relational Network of Gods, Dice, Books, Divination Users, and Mantic Figures
5Outline of the Work

1 The Divination of Maheśvara
1The Manuscript
2Introducing the Divination of Maheśvara
3The Gods and Spirits in the Divination of Maheśvara
4Translation and Transcription of the Divination of Maheśvara

2 The Divination of Maheśvara and Chinese Numerical Trigram Divination
1Material Culture and Ritual Process in Chinese Numerical Trigram Texts
2Numerical Trigrams in the Stalk Divination and the Baoshan Divination Record
3The Empowered Draughtsmen Divination Method and the Sutra on the Divination of Good and Bad Karmic Retribution
4A Case Study in Transmission: The Tricks of Jing, the Duke of Zhou Divination Method, and the Guan Gongming Divination Method
5Poetry, Talismans, and Divination

3 The Divination of Maheśvara and Indic Dice Divination
1The Divination of Maheśvara and Two Other Tenth-Century Dunhuang Dice Divination Codices
2Ninth-Century Tibetan Dice Divination Texts from Dunhuang, Turfan, and Mazār Tāgh
3Sanskrit Dice Divination Texts from Kucha
4The Archeology and Mythology of Pāśaka Dice

Conclusions: Inheriting the Wind

Appendix: Divining with Sixteen Numerical Trigrams
Bibliography
Index